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The document discusses several examples that illustrate the second law of thermodynamics:
1. Systems left to themselves will progress towards equilibrium and disorder over time, as seen in examples like mixed cream and coffee not unmixing, or books falling but not jumping back up onto tables.
2. Heat cannot spontaneously flow from a cooler object to a warmer one, as seen in examples like gases in a room not separating into pure oxygen and nitrogen.
3. It is impossible to convert all heat into work without changing the state of another body, as seen in examples showing the impossibility of a "perpetual motion machine."
4. Quantitative measures of order, probability, and information also show the preferred
The document discusses several examples that illustrate the second law of thermodynamics:
1. Systems left to themselves will progress towards equilibrium and disorder over time, as seen in …